From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: RE: argc/argv
15 Jan 1999 19:17:52 -0800
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To: "Haynes, Dan" <Haynes AT pwrh DOT com>, shijn AT tcc DOT com DOT cn, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

---"Haynes, Dan" <Haynes AT pwrh DOT com> wrote:
8< 
> The one gotcha with that scheme - if no files match the wildcard,
Borland
> just passes in the arguments untouched. So if you invoke your
program as
> "test *.c" and there are no .c files in the directory, argv[1] will
be set
> to "*.c" :-(
8<

That's also true with bash both on UNIX and WIN32 and is standard
globbing practice. :-)
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